Quotes About Mindfulness

Your spirit already thinks 'outside of the box'. It's called intuition. Your body just needs to catch up and open its eye(lid).

life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit and mind.

She tried to do what the Equinox yoga instructor said to do and thank each thought for coming then let it float away, but the thoughts were not floating away and she couldn't force them away, not even here, where she was supposed to be able to escape.

Someone who is comfortable in their own company and can be alone without feeling unduly anxious, defensive or half-alive is experiencing solitude

The greater part of our lives is spent with ourselves, no matter where or with what other people we may live . . . our imagination is the only companion chained to us for the whole of existence.' Charlotte Wolff

Understanding yourself better, you will see that what happens to you matters less than your own reactions. This is wonderful because you always have far more choice and control about your reactions than you do about "what happens.

Looking back over fifty years of science and environmental education, I find that the main thing I have taught is how to pay attention.

I was forever late, in a rush, my foot heavy on the pedal, haunted by something I'd forgotten to do, to pay, to sign. I ate on the run, balanced hot coffee while shifting in traffic, and dreamed of being organized, believing I could be if only I had the right containers.

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

It turns out that knitting has taught me that good things come in all sizes, and the size doesn't matter, as long as you're happy with what you've got.

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day. I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.

Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

Don't Worry Be Happy

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Be open. And then the truth follows.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.